(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
1.
A ~ is an area of open and usually high land with poor soil that is covered mainly with grass and heather. (mainly BRIT)
Colliford is higher, right up on the ~s...
Ex~ National Park stretches over 265 square miles of ~.
N-VAR
2.
If you ~ a boat somewhere, you stop and tie it to the land with a rope or chain so that it cannot move away.
She had ~ed her barge on the right bank of the river...
I decided to ~ near some tourist boats.
= tie up
VERB: V n, V
3.
The Moors were a Muslim people who established a civilization in North Africa and Spain between the 8th and the 15th century A.D.
N-COUNT: usu pl
4.
see also ~ing